What's new? Well I'll tell you!

I've posted quite a few new handmade jewelry items in my etsy shop.  I plan to get more pieces photographed and posted to etsy next week if at all possible.  Unfortunately my ability to photograph items well is contingent on nice bright sunlight, which unfortunately the great city of Nashville has not seen much of lately.  Sunday promises to be sunny and bright (and more importantly not blisteringly cold) so I should have a good set up in the back yard with my white foam core and boxes of treasures.  I often wonder what the neighbors think I'm doing back there as I live on a corner so all of my backyard, amateur photography shenanigans are visible to every Joe Schmoe on the street!

I've also got some delightful vintage items up with more to come!  I've got some strange and lovely pieces in the hopper just waiting to be photographed and posted.

I am also delighted to announce that my very own Zazzle store is up and running.  There are for more designs available than what the screen shot shows here.

The last Porter Crossing Arts Market

Yes, I am doing 2 events with "Porter" in the name back to back!  This Saturday from noon until 9 pm I'll be sharing a hefty space with some incredibly talented friends at the Porter Crossing Arts Market.  For those of you that have attended previous events, we used to be across the street, but that space has been rented, the fine folks of Craftville will still be in the left side of the building, but the rest of the crafters (and there will be many) have moved to the space directly behind the Family Wash.  Tell your friends!  it's the not the most conspicuous area, so look for the banners and the extra tall globe lights.
Stay tuned for pics of new items for sale...

Porter Flea Holiday Market

The summer Porter Flea Arts Market was such a huge success that they've decided to do it again for the Holidays!  I'll be sharing a booth with Music City Suds on Saturday December 3rd from noon until 8pm at the East park community center.





Below are a few new things that I've been working on, including my Bullets A-Flyin' series using spent shells and feathers.

Rumours East Wine, Chocolate & Shopping

 

I'll be at this event with a small sampling of handmade and vintage goodness along with a host of other vendors.   Remember, the shopping is free to enjoy, but you'll have to pony up $20 for chocolates & wine, but it is WELL worth it!

November Porter Crossing Arts Market

The November Porter Crossing Arts Market will be from noon until 9pm this Saturday, November 12th.  I'll be there with vintage clothing, furniture and household goods, as well as handmade jewelry, art and decor.  There has been such a great selection of vendors at the past 2 events, I can only imagine that it will get better in these last 2 shows seeing as how we're getting close to the holidays.
Check out details on their Facebook event page.

I'll be at the Edgehill Village Artisan Fair this Saturday with delicious and delightful jewelry, decor, art, furniture and vintage.  The list of vendors looks fantastic and to be honest I am super excited about the inclusion of local food trucks.  It's going to be yummy for your tummy and your holiday gift-giving needs!

Stacks on Decks

I have a dog in this fight, so to speak.  

 

Comin' atcha' this Saturday! Saturday!  Saturday!

I present to you Stacks on Decks!

Oodles of local artists have custom designed/painted/artified skateboard decks in this show.  There'll be music, food, drink, live painting, Djs & most importantly, ME!  These are artisan made, Birch skateboards, so please come by and pat my hand reassuringly and tell me that I didn't ruin one.  ;)

Aftermath of the 2nd OMG Flea Market

So the 2nd OMG Urban Flea Market was this last Saturday, what a scorcher! (both literally and figuratively)  I have to say despite the fact that the weatherman said that it got up to 105º out there, it was a good day.  I got to hang out with the incomparable Jessica Hodges of Pokenbag (her Etsy shop is here), the Farmer's Wife,  Shannon Smith, and the always lovely Jenny Dawes-Drone of the Restoration Project.  They were my booth buddies.  My talented friend, Miss Marrah Florita, was there as well, but she was soooo faaaaar awaaaaay and it was sooooo hoooooot, that I didn't speak to her much.  If it wasn't within 10 feet or serving cold beverages/air conditioning I was not interested!

I was very afraid that sales would be down thanks to the heat, but Inglewood never disappoints me with their support of local events.  Come hell or high water, they are out there with their foldin' money and a smile.  I can see the appeal of living in such a vibrant community, but alas, I am a west-sider through & through.

Speaking of supporting that which is local (and awesome) the site where we were holding the event will some day soon be home to the Urban Green Lab. A soon-to-be-built community center to promote sustainable living.  They had a booth to get the word out, it sounds like a really cool project. 

And on the subject of reduce, reuse, recycle, I had a couple of vintage chairs.  They were wonderful chairs, they looked deceptively like your typical early 20th century wooden dining chairs.  What made these two special was that they folded up if you push in the super secret release on the back.  It's like having a secret passage or something, but it's a chair!  I recovered the seat with part of an old nylon/acrylic quilt top that I had lying around and I just fell in love with them all over again.  I kinda' didn't want to sell them.  Turns out though, that each one went to a photographer.  One went to the proprietress of Stella Dolce Photography and the other to a lovely lady named Jessie who wrote about my chair in her blog!  I was pretty flattered that two separate people who make it their business to capture beauty, bought something that I found and redid.  Not that I'm not flattered when anyone buys my stuff, it reassures me that I'm not entirely crazy for making this stuff!

I look forward to next time and further affirmations that I am not mad.

A rack full of Pokenbags!

A wire rack full of Pokenbags and if you look closely, the elusive Jessica!

My vintage tea tine lanterns, clocks and various and sundry items.

necklaces!  necklaces!  necklaces!

a suitcase full of hates and hair adornments.

ashtrays shaped like states, scarves and the teeny-tiniest sombrero you ever met!

this this is vinyl, mid-century, fabulous and offers a HUGE amount of storage.

a trio of mid-century vases

earrings, tiny purses and one heck of a Wonder Woman belt.

chokers, bracelets and the weirdest, folding sun hat I have ever seen.  (OK, the only folding sun hat I have seen)

candle holders and the infamous Whiskey Choker.

some planters, curly slippers and "raise the roof" Buddha stand atop the Ruth the Acrobat nightstand. (no one loves her like I do)

Hey everybody, go here this weekend!

You can get more info on it here.  I'll be part of the Craftville Vendor Sampler Booth!

Below are the items that I'll have in the booth God willin' and the creek don't rise.

It's a beer! It's an earring! No, it's BEER-rings!

Just a little something new I've been working on.  These beer cans (which also come in Budweiser, Coors and Schlitz) were novelty gumball machine prizes in the 70s.  Yes, these were for children.  I have removed them from the ultra-classy plastic strings they came on and joined them with a little antiqued brass chain and some faceted, amber briolettes to mimic drops of that golden nectar of the gods, beer.

I'll be at the next Artsy Chicks event June 25th!

I'll be at this stellar event at the Station Inn (in the Gulch), in fantastic company with all new jewelry and decor for you to love.

And so it begins

Hopefully over the next week I'll be able to post a little more every day of what I plan to bring to the first ever (ever, ever, EVER!) OMG Urban Flea Market.  And I just found out that they are allowing handmade at the flea market as well as everything else.  There should be a huge variety of things offered there, it'll rock your face off guaranteed!
Here's the first wave: